Women competed at the first indoor rodeo event at the Fort Worth, Texas, Coliseum in 1918. By 1920, they were participating in rodeos as relay racers, rough stock riders and trick riders. In 1928, one ...

Women have been in rodeo since rodeo began but, as has happened so often, as the sport began gaining popularity, women were pushed out. Maybe it was because cowboys couldn’t bear to be bested by ...

COLUMBUS - Soon the bleachers will be full on sunny Saturday afternoons as competitors take their places on muddy fields across the Midwest. But for Rachel Tiedeman, the sound of fall sports will ...

Cowgirl Rachel Dice gives a barely perceptible nod. The gate swings open. Dice and her horse Katie shoot forward, angling to the right where a barrel waits amid dry mounds of dirt. Rider and mare slow ...